NDLI: Shifting the Load: a Peer Dialogue Agent that Encourages its Human Collaborator to Contribute More to Problem Solving

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Author	Di Eugenio, Barbara Howard, Cynthia Jordan, Pamela Katz, Sandra
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Despite a growing need for educational tools that support students at the earliest phases of undergraduate Computer Science (CS) curricula, relatively few such tools exist–the majority being Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Since peer interactions more readily give rise to challenges and negotiations, another way in which students can become more interactive during problem solving, we created an artificial peer collaborator to determine its value for aiding CS students. Central to its development was the notion that it should monitor the student’s collaborative behavior and attempt to guide him/her towards more productive behavior. In prior work, we found that initiative shifts correlate with both Knowledge Co-Construction (KCC) and learning and are potentially easier to model as an indicator of productive collaboration in instructional software. In this paper, we describe a unique peer dialogue agent that we created to test the effects of tracking and reacting to initiative shifts. While our study did not find differences in learning gains when comparing agents that do and do not track and react to initiative shifts, we did find that students do learn when interacting with the agent and that attempting to influence initiative taking did make a difference. This suggests that by tracking initiative shifts, the agent was able to detect times when the student had been letting the agent do most of the “deep thinking” and that the agent’s tactics for encouraging the student to begin taking the initiative again were helpful.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	129
Page Count	29
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15604292
Journal	International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15604306
Language	English
Publisher	Springer New York
Publisher Date	2015-10-27
Publisher Institution	International AIED Society
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Collaborative dialogue Peer agent Educational Technology User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Computers and Education Computer science education Collaborative problem solving
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computational Theory and Mathematics E-learning

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